Usually means: Hair styled to cover baldness.
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  1. combover: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. combover: Wordnik
  3. combover: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  4. combover: Wiktionary
  5. Combover: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  6. combover: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. combover: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (combover)

▸ noun:  A manner of combing hair from one side to the other in an attempt to conceal a medial bald patch.

Similar:
backcomb, toupe, toupee, sidebang, sidelock, buzzcut, side-lock, tonsure, coxcomb, bald cap, more...

Opposite:
comb-forward, bald, shaved head

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Similar:
backcomb, toupe, toupee, sidebang, sidelock, buzzcut, side-lock, tonsure, coxcomb, bald cap, more...

Opposite:
comb-forward, bald, shaved head



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